RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s federal environment workers on Tuesday presented the government with a deal to end their strike that has curtailed efforts to protect the Amazon rainforest and slowed …
BRASILIA: Brazilian tourism officials are hoping to change the country’s image as a mere haven for scantily-clad beachgoers by hosting UN climate talks next year in the Amazon rainforest city …
A study based on over 20 years of research into an ancient site in the Amazon rainforest has revealed evidence it was once a large-scale hub of interconnected cities that …
RIO DE JANEIRO: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by half last year, according to figures released Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva‘s government bolstered environmental policing to …
SAO DESIDERIO: People thought she was crazy when Carminha Maria Missio and her family bought what was considered “sterile” land in the Brazilian savanna to farm soybeans, she says.Missio, a …
MANAUS: Manaus, the largest city in Brazil’s Amazonas state, has for days been engulfed by a toxic cloud of smoke from forest fires lit by what the government labeled “criminals”.The …